Peter Dargin, who was one of the longest serving men of the military in the early Colony, arriving in 1788 as a Marine Pte, in 1792 transferring over to the NSW Corps and then to the Veteran Company in 1810 where he remained through to its disbandment in Sep 1823.
Read more
Thomas Huckles convict arrived in NSW per Salamander in August 1791 with the Third Fleet .
Read moreThe Sydney Female Orphan School was set up by Governor King in 1801, was initially located in George Street, Sydney.
Read moreNorfolk Island was also a place of banishment for colonial sentences of secondary transportation and hard labour issued by authorities in NSW, namely the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction (Criminal Court), Judge Advocate’s Bench of Magistrates (Bench), and the Court of Enquires regarding the various Irish rebellions.
Read more